Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Why the Nervous System?; Chapter 2 Terror as Usual: Walter Benjamin's Theory of History as State of Siege; Chapter 3 Violence And Resistance In The Americas: The Legacy Of Conquest; Chapter 4 An Australian Hero; Chapter 5 Cane Toads: an Unnatural History; Chapter 6 Reification and The Consciousness of The Patient; Chapter 7 Maleficium :State Fetishism; Chapter 8 Tactility and Distraction; Chapter 9 Homesickness & Dada;

About the Author

Michael Taussig is Professor at Columbia University.

Reviews

"Taussig's masterful essays should be read by any scholar and in any class concerned with an anthropology of the present." -- American Anthropologist